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key.  p.  b.  brodie  on  cestraciont-remains  [May  1893, 
these  coarse  sandy  marls  are  so  saturated  with  water  and  so  exces¬ 
sively  friable  that  no  entire  specimens,  hut  only  mere  fragments 
can  be  secured,  though  they  appear  to  belong  to  the  same  species  as 
the  well-preserved  spines  in  the  sandstones,  and  the  acrodont  teeth 
certainly  are  much  more  numerous.  The  occurrence  of  these 
abundant  remains  of  cestracionts  and  other  fishes  (ganoids)  lower 
Section  in  the  Upper  Reaper  at  Shrewley ,  Warwickshire. 
Cestraciont-remains  . . . 
Ripple-marlis  . 
Teeth  of  Cestracionts 
and  Ganoid  Scales ... 
Semionotus  Brodiei  pro¬ 
bably  from  this  bed . 
Semionotus  sp. ;  also 
casts  of  Esther ia . 
Estheria  minuta ,  with 
tests  preserved  . 
Fish-  and  Labyrin-  / 
thodont-remains ...  ( 
No  Fossils, 
Soil. 
Friable  Sandstone. 
Green  Marl. 
Marly  Sandstone. 
Sandstone. 
Green  Marl. 
Sandstone. 
Soft  Sandstone. 
Sandstone. 
(Bottom-rock;  ripple- 
[marked.) 
Green  Sandy  Marls. 
Fine  Conglomerate. 
Gritty  and  coarse  sandy 
[Marls. 
Red  Marls. 
Vertical  Scale:  g  inch  — 1  foot. 
[The  total  height  of  the  section  is  about  33  feet.] 
Note. — Several  of  the  sandstones  are  good  building-stones  ;  some  are  current- 
bedded,  with  footprints  of  Labyrinthodon.  These  footprints  appear  to  be 
confined  to  one  hard,  fine-grained  sandstone,  the  exact  position  of  which 
I  have  never  been  able  to  ascertain. 
down  in  the  section  proves  their  existence  at  a  somewhat  earlier  date 
in  the  Upper  Trias  hereabouts,  and  therefore  the  section  has  a 
certain  amount  of  interest  for  the  palaeontologist.  It  is  more 
